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This blog was a long time coming: Dragon age 2

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A very long time this has been coming (about three and a half weeks)

Dragon Age 2 is one of those games where it's hard to sum up into a small paragraph about how I feel. I won't make it a spoiler so just sit back and relax as I write down my scattered thoughts. Believe me, my thoughts on this are both up.. and down...when it comes to this, this is my first completely finished bioware game that I put a lot of time into and played NON stop...

I can say lots about the good. Dragon Age 2 is an experience I haven't had in a long time, especially with characters that for the most part I think are very likeable. You'll easily
 I'm rather likeable if you hate mage's
 I'm rather likeable if you hate mage's
find a character you can Identify with and stick with from beginning to end. From Ander's sweet and easy to find a connection with, to Fenris whom though very much having an asshole type exterior you can see why is is that way and understand his loathing for the magic 'enhanced'. Meeting and getting to know the character's is hand's down the best experience about the game in full.

Easily enough my first play through was spent trying to get to know these people and see their likes and dislikes about their world around them that is quite frankly always at the brink of war with SOMETHING. And easily enough I got a lot of things wrong and lost character's because of it but you learn something new every day huh? I made mistakes and had a good time leveling and getting new abilities and learning how to fail as a Rogue... not picking that class anymore XP

Doing side quests are a good break if your tired of the storyline though usually linked in one way or another it still break's up the tedious "Go here and say your for/against mages DO IT NOW" which i just put a smart remark too and on with my day I went.

I finished out happily enough at about 47 hours or so and then I sat.. stared at the game for a bit and said "You know what! One more time!" and I happily dove back in with a mage.

And that's when things took a turn.

I have NEVER experienced five freezes in a row, missing character's that you can hear talking but suddenly poof. OH AND GLITCHING QUESTS...

 Someone fix my New Path quest.
 Someone fix my New Path quest.
I spent more time with this game than ANYONE should ever do, suffered data loss and Quests that wouldn't function.. all of this happening WHILE I'm trying to plat. That's right, I sad I was trying to PLATINUM this game. Doing that while it was going fucking nuts... wonderful right?

I liked this game, i liked it enough to replay it IMMEDIATELY after beating it so that says something but with all it's problems.. I can't say I want anyone to try and beat this game. Even the issues they just fixed with a patch isn't fixing much cause you know...

Cause.. well...

THE EPIC TROPHY IS FUCKING GLITCHED TO HIGH HEAVEN SO I CAN"T GET THE LAST FUCKING ONE WITHOUT DA: O WHICH I DON'T OWN BIOWARE!!!!!!!!!

So.. I can't plat this game.. cause of Bioware. This issue was NOT addressed with the patch.. so..

Thanks bioware.

Also Merrill's quest is fucked ALL to hell now for some reason I got her *sob: the keeper is dead* thing when I get the quest for new path? So damn backwards (I actually nearly redid 5 hours of gameplay cause I thought it was my fault and that I missed it.. nope, wasn't me. XP). Yes I am mad, I just put in 80-some hours into a game to hopefully plat and I can't cause of a glitch... XP I played both fully to the end..

And now.. here is my fear.

That Bioware fixes this problem right.. which is good. BUT what if I have to replay it again.. for a third time to get EPIC?

GAWD please no..

I want it fixed but not at that cost, i do hope if it is fixed my playthrough counts and it just pops or something, but by the time they do I would have went out and bought Origins
 I tried to go for fenris but his 'romance' thing got fucked all to hell.. so Ander's two times in a row!
 I tried to go for fenris but his 'romance' thing got fucked all to hell.. so Ander's two times in a row!
and sat through that just to get it (not that that is too much of a waste cause I haven't gotten to play all of Origins anyway so I was planning too eventually, but still)

Okay... I'm done raging.

In the end, Dragon Age 2 is one of those games where you shouldn't care about the trophies/achievement's and just have fun with the game, when you do that it's smooth sailing save for the obvious glitches and freezes it's a good game but if your striving for achievement's and trophies you may really want to move on elsewhere until bioware get's their asses in gear and fixes them so your not looking baffled like me at the plat you should have gotten XP XD

My verdict.. a good game with obvious flaws, play for fun and leave the raging to the professionals. ^^

I am a professional quite obviously.

Anyway, I'm done with Dragon Age and in my head I got a plat and.. I'm content for now, i did my best and I enjoyed what I did though i am quite frustrated with the turn out. I'm gunna move on to another game and enjoy the fact that the borrowed game is gone (no I didn't own it) And I'm planning to hopefully play some might and magic until I rage quite from it getting too hard XD But that's okay it won't be hard cause of a glitch, it'll be hard because I suck.. XD

Anyway.. I had my say.. ^^

PS!

Vidiot made the awesome header he deserves some love ^^ (Cause we still count it as a plat!)
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A very long time this has been coming (about three and a half weeks)

Dragon Age 2 is one of those games where it's hard to sum up into a small paragraph about how I feel. I won't make it a spoiler so just sit back and relax as I write down my scattered thoughts. Believe me, my thoughts on this are both up.. and down...when it comes to this, this is my first completely finished bioware game that I put a lot of time into and played NON stop...

I can say lots about the good. Dragon Age 2 is an experience I haven't had in a long time, especially with characters that for the most part I think are very likeable. You'll easily
 I'm rather likeable if you hate mage's
 I'm rather likeable if you hate mage's
find a character you can Identify with and stick with from beginning to end. From Ander's sweet and easy to find a connection with, to Fenris whom though very much having an asshole type exterior you can see why is is that way and understand his loathing for the magic 'enhanced'. Meeting and getting to know the character's is hand's down the best experience about the game in full.

Easily enough my first play through was spent trying to get to know these people and see their likes and dislikes about their world around them that is quite frankly always at the brink of war with SOMETHING. And easily enough I got a lot of things wrong and lost character's because of it but you learn something new every day huh? I made mistakes and had a good time leveling and getting new abilities and learning how to fail as a Rogue... not picking that class anymore XP

Doing side quests are a good break if your tired of the storyline though usually linked in one way or another it still break's up the tedious "Go here and say your for/against mages DO IT NOW" which i just put a smart remark too and on with my day I went.

I finished out happily enough at about 47 hours or so and then I sat.. stared at the game for a bit and said "You know what! One more time!" and I happily dove back in with a mage.

And that's when things took a turn.

I have NEVER experienced five freezes in a row, missing character's that you can hear talking but suddenly poof. OH AND GLITCHING QUESTS...

 Someone fix my New Path quest.
 Someone fix my New Path quest.
I spent more time with this game than ANYONE should ever do, suffered data loss and Quests that wouldn't function.. all of this happening WHILE I'm trying to plat. That's right, I sad I was trying to PLATINUM this game. Doing that while it was going fucking nuts... wonderful right?

I liked this game, i liked it enough to replay it IMMEDIATELY after beating it so that says something but with all it's problems.. I can't say I want anyone to try and beat this game. Even the issues they just fixed with a patch isn't fixing much cause you know...

Cause.. well...

THE EPIC TROPHY IS FUCKING GLITCHED TO HIGH HEAVEN SO I CAN"T GET THE LAST FUCKING ONE WITHOUT DA: O WHICH I DON'T OWN BIOWARE!!!!!!!!!

So.. I can't plat this game.. cause of Bioware. This issue was NOT addressed with the patch.. so..

Thanks bioware.

Also Merrill's quest is fucked ALL to hell now for some reason I got her *sob: the keeper is dead* thing when I get the quest for new path? So damn backwards (I actually nearly redid 5 hours of gameplay cause I thought it was my fault and that I missed it.. nope, wasn't me. XP). Yes I am mad, I just put in 80-some hours into a game to hopefully plat and I can't cause of a glitch... XP I played both fully to the end..

And now.. here is my fear.

That Bioware fixes this problem right.. which is good. BUT what if I have to replay it again.. for a third time to get EPIC?

GAWD please no..

I want it fixed but not at that cost, i do hope if it is fixed my playthrough counts and it just pops or something, but by the time they do I would have went out and bought Origins
 I tried to go for fenris but his 'romance' thing got fucked all to hell.. so Ander's two times in a row!
 I tried to go for fenris but his 'romance' thing got fucked all to hell.. so Ander's two times in a row!
and sat through that just to get it (not that that is too much of a waste cause I haven't gotten to play all of Origins anyway so I was planning too eventually, but still)

Okay... I'm done raging.

In the end, Dragon Age 2 is one of those games where you shouldn't care about the trophies/achievement's and just have fun with the game, when you do that it's smooth sailing save for the obvious glitches and freezes it's a good game but if your striving for achievement's and trophies you may really want to move on elsewhere until bioware get's their asses in gear and fixes them so your not looking baffled like me at the plat you should have gotten XP XD

My verdict.. a good game with obvious flaws, play for fun and leave the raging to the professionals. ^^

I am a professional quite obviously.

Anyway, I'm done with Dragon Age and in my head I got a plat and.. I'm content for now, i did my best and I enjoyed what I did though i am quite frustrated with the turn out. I'm gunna move on to another game and enjoy the fact that the borrowed game is gone (no I didn't own it) And I'm planning to hopefully play some might and magic until I rage quite from it getting too hard XD But that's okay it won't be hard cause of a glitch, it'll be hard because I suck.. XD

Anyway.. I had my say.. ^^

PS!

Vidiot made the awesome header he deserves some love ^^ (Cause we still count it as a plat!)
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I don't know what took you so long to write this up, but I'll personally never write up any conclusive thoughts on this game because I can't get my own opinions straight in my head. Part of me loves the game for they way they handle companions and their character developments (Your companions seem to interact much more with each other than in past Bioware and actually seem to have social lives outside of the main character), but then again so much of the game is broken, the story is incredibly linear on subsequent playthroughs, and a lot of their new "solutions" seem to just result in more problems than they fix. Even so I'm still planning on doing a third playthrough once I go home and finish the DLC for Dragon Age: Origins.

All I can hope for is that the next time they tackle the franchise they're allowed to spend more time developing the game.
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@SlashseveN303:  I agree with everything you've said I LOVE the interactions and listening to the character's just talk which is both hilarious and wonderful. But everything else is just crap, glitchy, buggy and long winded and the end will ALWAYS be the same...  I both love it and hate it..
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As someone people would regard as an "achievement enthusiast", let me exclaim that glitched achievements are a construct of an apparatus, created and distributed by the devil himself.

I've had my share of glitched achievements, that being said "Lego Harry Potter", doesn't necessarily roll off most people's minds these days as something a respectable gaming pursuit. Dragon Age 2 is about as high-profile as it gets, and while Bioware doesn't make the same cash as -insert whatever Activision decries as "successful" this moment, it's still a stones throw away from any gaming conversation.
To have such a blatant error is dismal, even worse is the amount of time you put in. The good news: According to the forums you are not alone regarding your endeavor, and such shenanigans will not be tolerated by Bioware in the near future.

If they do, I will personally drive to Canada and punch a random Bioware employee in the face.

Don't be discouraged by attempting another S-Rank in the future. You have the right mentality regards playing games, and for all intents and purposes: You have a Platinum Trophy. You did your end of the ordeal, it's time for them to get their shit together.

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Finally.